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The Conservative Party’s ‘kick them while they are down’ approach to schools hurts children, communities and our country as a whole. It seeks to starve schools of the funding at the moment they need it most: to lift standards and improve teaching. They would be unable to provide support to teachers...

A core part of our plan to fire up our regional economies is to create a world-class and accessible public transport system. When people can travel and businesses can move goods across our country easily, our regional economies win. So this Government will invest in our infrastructure, building new...

The new public services agenda, hosted by the Institute for Public Policy Research Amelia Lockhart, Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Business, Transport and Social Mobility, addressed an audience at IPPR’s head office. Ladies and gentleman, Thank you Matthew for that introduction. U...

Developing the Regions: Policies to Level Up the Country, hosted by the University of Manchester Amelia Lockhart, Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Business, Transport and Social Mobility addressed an audience at the University of Manchester. Ladies and gentleman, I want to thank the...

Our rural communities deserve better than a Conservative Party who makes knowingly undeliverable promises to secure their votes. Fresh from slashing our surplus, the Conservative Party has announced another borrowing binge that will hurt rural businesses and families economic security. Their rural p...

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Under the Government’s budget, families and children will be better off. Not only will acting in a fiscally responsible way mean we reduce the bill paid for by future generations, it frees up funding for investment to help them. We are tackling child poverty by introducing a new child tax credit and...

The Liberal Democrats can say what they want but they aren’t the party of new mums, parents or children when it comes to social security. Under Rebecca Flair and the Liberal Democrats, a million working and low paid families would receive nearly £360 a year less, new mums claiming statutory maternit...

The Leader of the Opposition rightly suggests that a budget “is more than a series of spreadsheets, it is an opportunity to send a message about the sort of country we believe that Britain ought to be.” Let’s have a look at what message Mr Croft and the Conservative Party Shadow Budget sends: The To...